![]() I’ve developed several other original routines for the bottles over the years, but none of them get the impact that Brooke’s routine gets. ![]() My routine is similar to the routine that most magicians perform, mainly because we’re all studied the same manuscript from the legendary British Magician, Ken Brooke. I remember watching this routine on “World’s Greatest Magic” and just thinking “There’s no way!” Years later, Mullica put out some DVDs explaining how to do the act. I still get asked “Can you make the Statue of Liberty disappear?” referring to a trick that Copperfield did in 1983 which speaks to the power of one trick, but anyone under the age of 30 has replaced that question with “Can you float like David Blaine.” Blaine is solely responsible for making magic exciting again for young people in the late 90s and into the new millennium. ![]() In reality, it is difficult if not impossible to perform for strangers on the street without a film crew there to make you a desirable person to be approaching strangers. Taking magic to the “street” made it more accessible to non-magicians and this one trick is the perfect mascot for the “street magic” movement. I was working doing magic 4 nights a week in restaurants in 1996 when this aired and every night I would get asked at least 3 times “Can you float like David Blaine?” No other single magic trick has had that much of an impact in my lifetime in a social situation. This one trick took the magic-world by STORM. But the reason it made this list is simple. Did Blaine use the camera to his advantage? Yes. The trick itself is not that amazing when you see it live. Eleven years later, David Blaine performed it on television and stunned a world-wide audience. I learned this levitation when on an old dubbed video I watched when I worked in a magic shop in 1995. Self-Levitation (as performed on Television by David Blaine) Notice that the audience still says “Wow.”ĩ. Here’s the illusion’s inventor, Robert Harbin, presenting it as it was intended – as a talking routine.Īnd here it is, being performed in the wind quite poorly by a magician who is apparently afraid to look at his audience. It would be a neat thing to have in my house. I’ve never owned this illusion, but always wanted to – if nothing else, just for the classic magic cliche appearance of the thing. ![]() The basic idea is that a girl enters a box standing up, is cut into three pieces and the middle part of her body is slid away from the rest. It’s one of those illusions that, even though it has been exposed many times in print and television, it is still baffling to watch. This is a classic illusion that many people envision when they think of an illusionist. There were MANY tricks/routines/illusions that could have made this list, but here are ten. While I like to make fun of magic, I really am a lifelong student and fan of the art. ![]()
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